WOW! I, the one and only FreeThinke, have FINALLY had MY IDENTITY STOLEN along with my AVATAR!

WOO HOO! WHAT an HONOR!

I take it as a sign of RECOGNITION of Intellectual Superiority and Great Literary Prowess by the imbeciles who think they don't like me –– or what they stupidly imagine I represent –– and those so devoid of intelligence as to imagine they have the knowledge and sufficient wit to be capable of imitating me. };^)>

Thanks, ASSHOLE, whoever you may be, –– as if I gave a good country crap.

Sorry about that, FJ, but I wanted my friends to know about it now that I've been officially counterfeited. So, in case you get any strange messages that don't sound like me, you may be sure I am NOT the one publishing them.

“A perfect poet should have his ‘breaks’ or rhythmic modulations smooth and sonorous. Those which are the reverse should be learnt, one may say, not to be imitated but to be avoided. Of these latter, as of several others, the parent and originator, we are told, was Archilochus, who showed a talent quite unique for inventing and constructing new metres, and was the first to employ ‘epodes,’ that is, stanzas of a long and a short line, taking a single colon from his metre and putting it underneath; for instance in the heroic with which he begins, e.g. diffugere nives redeunt iam gramina campi , followed by an epode of the same metrical type, arboribusque comae. ” Marius Victorinus Art of Grammar:

A lame excuse! I have never detected a scintilla of poetic sentiment in any of your writings –– at least not as you've presented yourself here thus far.

Poetic license is permitted –– in the context of actual poetry –– in order to preserve or enhance formal rhyme schemes or to emphasize regional, comic, purely idiosyncratic or quaint colloquial characteristics.

It's not an excuse to abuse the language "any old which way" whenever one chooses just for the all of it.

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On Redemption

To redeem the past and to transform every ‘It was’ into an ‘I willed it thus!’ – that alone I call redemption!

Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

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Andrei Tarkovsky

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."